Fiscal responsibility | Dacka's Razor

While this case study is based on the US and it’s spluttering economic budget, the basic concepts that underpin Professor Antony Davies’ argument are perfectly transferrable to the situation that Australia is fast finding itself in.

Professor Antony Davies argues that there are not specific cuts that will enable government to balance the budget. He says, “Nothing less than a redesign will solve this problem.”

That redesign should begin by determining what the proper role of government is. I believe that small, effective government is essential for our society moving forward.

Hulking behemoth, omni-present governments that do everything for the people is an outdated concept from previous centuries that sells short the basic human drive to look after oneself.

But not everyone wants to look after themselves, do they? That would require personal effort and responsibility.

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With President Obama and Vice President Biden sitting on his right and a room full of the MSM, Dr Ben Carson delivers one of the most inspiring speeches that I have heard in many years. Certainly more inspiring than anything I have heard delivered by any politician of any persuasion, but most particularly anything delivered by the 44th US President.

In this light perhaps we should actively heed Dr Carson’s advice about getting more educated people into politics like real doctors (not doctors of economics), and many, many less lawyers.

People who care naturally about other the welfare of others, not just in winning the contest. Given the current political circumstance in Australian politics this statement rings even truer than it does in the US.

But back to Dr Carson’s speech. It is brilliant. You notice not that it’s 24 minutes long, because his message is so refreshingly simple, yet profound. As they say in the classics, “Let’s go to the tape…”

As you can see, it is a message of hope, direction, faith but most importantly about belief. A belief in oneself, and others around you; that anything is possible in our world but ultimately, the only person who is responsible for you is you.

Nothing in life is impossible,nothing unachievable , no problem unsolvable but you must set your mind to achieving it. And then you must do something about it. If you do, then nothing will stop you.

History is littered with many inspiring men and women who dragged themselves and their families, and sometimes even whole peoples, out of the darkness and into the light by following this simple creed.

Dr Carson also touches on something that is clearly fundamental to the success of western civilisation. Freedom of Speech. The linchpin that is responsible for the rise of the most powerful civilisation that mankind has ever known. Western civilisation.

Unfortunately this fundamental principle of our world is currently being eroded, cloaked in good intentions, yet sinister in it’s application. Our freedom to speak our minds, to participate in the contest of words and ideas is at the lowest ebb that it’s been at for many, many decades.

A freedom that was won on fierce and deadly battlefields now long forgotten, by men seemingly forgotten in our contemporary histories, seems to be fading into the past like the ghosts of liberty that fought for it.

Political correctness and the obsession with protecting people’s feelings because they hear things that offend them is destroying our capacity to actually discuss solutions to the most critical of issues that face us as a people.

We must resist the temptation to damn, to silence, to hector. We must debate, freely and robustly all of the issues and challenges that we face without fear or favour, for these are no trifling matters that we are confronted with.

Listen to Dr Carson’s story and tell me. What kind of world do you want to live in?

I want to live in the world that he wants to live in.